Navigation System—Plotter Or Computer

by John March 25, 2010
iPhone with marine charting

Our comparatively late adoption of electronic navigation (summer 2008) was, for more than any other reason, due to the difficulty we had in making the decision between a dedicated chart plotter and a computer running a navigation program. Either way, we had specific selection criteria that had to be met before we would switch to [...]

Navigation System—What We Bought

by John March 30, 2010
Dell computer

In the last post in this series we wrote about the criteria we used in choosing an electronic navigation system for Morgan’s Cloud. In this post we will write about the systems we looked at and what we finally bought. Plotters We started off looking at large screen plotters and because we have had such [...]